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2024 Polk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Polk County, TX went without power for an average of 208.9 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 252 Texas counties and 33rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Polk County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 8, 2024 11:45 | July 16, 2024 23:30 | 8d 11h | 26,132 | 1.7M |
| 2 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | June 7, 2024 23:30 | 14d 14h | 10,568 | 255K |
| 3 | May 8, 2024 07:00 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 15d 17h | 5,824 | 133K |
| 4 | April 29, 2024 02:00 | May 8, 2024 05:45 | 9d 3h | 3,522 | 63K |
| 5 | January 8, 2024 18:15 | January 9, 2024 05:30 | 11h 15m | 2,604 | 6,458 |
| 6 | January 12, 2024 08:30 | January 13, 2024 00:15 | 15h 45m | 2,121 | 5,482 |
| 7 | June 27, 2024 12:30 | June 27, 2024 21:15 | 8h 45m | 1,867 | 2,383 |
| 8 | October 7, 2024 20:15 | October 7, 2024 22:15 | 2h | 1,740 | 1,307 |
| 9 | July 26, 2024 04:00 | July 30, 2024 22:15 | 4d 18h | 1,662 | 8,113 |
| 10 | February 1, 2024 23:15 | February 3, 2024 14:30 | 1d 15h | 1,286 | 1,191 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 66 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Polk County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2024 | 28.8 hrs | 3.46 | 5.1 hrs | 2.05 |
| Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 76.4 hrs | - | 6.3 hrs | - |
| City of Livingston - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Texas's customers in 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,122 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk County, TX annual power outage report, 2024, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2024/texas/polk-county